Reaper: Calm Before the IoT Security Storm?

It's been just over a year since the world witnessed some of the world's top online Web sites being taken down for much of the day by "Mirai," a zombie malware strain that enslaved "Internet of Things" IoT devices such as wireless routers, security cameras and digital video recorders for use in...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Storm Video 5 PC Client (CNVD-2017-35535)

Storm Video 5 is a video player from Beijing Storm Technology Co. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the avformatlav57 module of the Storm Video 5 PC client when opening specific mkv files when copying strings, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a denial of service or code...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Storm Video 5 PC Client

Storm Video 5 is a video player from Beijing Storm Technology Co. Storm Video 5 PC client when opening specific 3gp files = A memory corruption vulnerability exists, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Microsoft’s October Patch Batch Fixes 62 Flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 62 security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office and other software. Two of those flaws were detailed publicly before yesterday's patches were released, and one of them is already being exploited in active attacks, so attackers already...

Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Storm Video 5

Storm Video 5 is a video player from Beijing Storm Technology Co. A memory corruption vulnerability exists when opening certain MP4 files in the Storm Video player, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Fast and More Efficient Stateless SYN Scanner And Banner Grabber: PolarBearScan

polarbearscan is an attempt to do faster and more efficient banner grabbing and port scanning. It combines two different ideas which hopefully will make it somewhat worthy of your attention and time. The first of these ideas is to use stateless SYN scanning using cryptographically protected cooki...

'HoeflerText' Popups Target Browsers With RAT and Locky Ransomware

A malware campaign utilizing bogus popups that alert users to a missing web-font is targeting Google Chrome and Firefox browser users. The popups contain a malicious JavaScript file that initiates the download of either the NetSupport Manager remote access tool RAT or Locky ransomware. The...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Storm Video 5

Storm Video 5 is the video playback software of Beijing Storm Technology Co. Storm Video 5 decoder has a denial of service vulnerability when decoding special mp4 files, which can be exploited by attackers to cause the software to crash, resulting in a denial of service...

What’s inside Vulners.com database and when were security objects updated last time

As I already wrote earlier, the main advantage of Vulners.com, in my opinion, is openness. An open system allows you to look under the hood, make sure that everything works fine and ask developers uncomfortable questions why there were no updates for a long time for some types of security objects...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...

Arbitrary Code Execution As A Different User

storm-core is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution as a different user. The vulnerability is possible due to a flaw which allows a topology owner to mislead the supervisor to run a worker as a different user i.e., non-root. In the worst case, this exposes all the credentials of the user...

Apache Storm Code Execution Vulnerability

Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed real-time computing system. Apache Storm suffers from a code execution vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of different users...

CVE-2017-9799

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure...

CVE-2017-9799

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure...

Code injection

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure...

CVE-2017-9799

It was found that under some situations and configurations of Apache Storm 1.x before 1.0.4 and 1.1.x before 1.1.1, it is theoretically possible for the owner of a topology to trick the supervisor to launch a worker as a different, non-root, user. In the worst case this could lead to secure...

CVE-2017-9799

CVE-2017-9799 affects Apache Storm 1.x prior to 1.0.4 and 1.1.x prior to 1.1.1. The issue allows a topology owner to trick the supervisor into launching a worker as a different, non-root user, enabling exposure of that user’s credentials. Impact is described as potential credential compromise and...

Dasan Networks GPON ONT WiFi Router H64X Series Cross-Site Request Forgery

Summary H64xx is comprised of one G-PON uplink port and four ports of Gigabit Ethernet downlink supporting 10/100/1000Base-T RJ45. It helps service providers to extend their core optical network all the way to their subscribers, eliminating bandwidth bottlenecks in the last mile. H64xx is...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 24, 2017

There was a time when a person’s motivation to hack something was for financial reasons or for street cred. But now we’re seeing organizations that have other motivations. Pawn Storm is a cyber-espionage organization whose motives include foreign and domestic espionage, and influence on...

A Storm’s a Coming: How businesses can defend against threat actor groups like Pawn Storm

Pawn Storm aka Sednit5, Fancy Bear, APT28, Sofacy and STRONTIUM8 might sound like Instagram accounts, top-secret spy programs or recently passed legislation, but in reality they are all different names for the same successful cyber espionage group or threat actor group. These actors often use...